Mississippi Creek is a
tributary
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stream
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to
Pacheco Creek in
Santa Clara County, California
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.
Its
mouth
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is located at an elevation of at its confluence with the
North Fork Pacheco Creek. Its
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is located at on the south flank of
Bear Mountain in the
Diablo Range
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in Santa Clara County.
The upper part of the creek, at the
Valle Atravesado was subsequently flooded when Mississippi Creek, that runs southward through it, was dammed in the 20th century on the valleys south side. It is now a reservoir, originally named Murray Lake, on the upper reach of Mississippi Creek. The lake was originally named after its builder Murray Hopkins who not only built the reservoir, but the 40 miles of
County Line Road along the crest of the Diablo Range between
San Antonio Valley
The community of San Antonio Valley, also called San Antonio or San Antone, is located along the Diablo Range in eastern Santa Clara County, California. The locale is bordered by Alameda County to the north and Stanislaus County to the east. ...
and
Fifield Ranch. Today the reservoir is called
Mississippi Lake
Mississippi Lake is a lake in Lanark County in Ontario, Canada. Ontario's Mississippi River flows northeast and north through the lake. Several small creeks including Cranberry Creek, McCrearys Creek, and McGibbon Creek drain into the lake from ad ...
and the dam Mississippi Dam.
Frank F. Latta Frank Forrest Latta (1892–1983), was a California historian and ethnographer of the Yokuts people. He also wrote histories of the early European-American settlement of the San Joaquin Valley.
Early life
Frank Forrest Latta was the son of Presbyte ...
, JOAQUIN MURRIETA AND HIS HORSE GANGS, Bear State Books, Santa Cruz, California. 1980.
from richard-rowland-perkins.com accessed 12/06/2108. See mention of Mississippi Lake
Mississippi Lake is a lake in Lanark County in Ontario, Canada. Ontario's Mississippi River flows northeast and north through the lake. Several small creeks including Cranberry Creek, McCrearys Creek, and McGibbon Creek drain into the lake from ad ...
and Dam in the hiking journal of the author in Day 2 and in Day 4 where he visited it. See also the included topographic map for Day 4 travel that shows the lake, dam and area around it.
References
Rivers of Santa Clara County, California
Diablo Range
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